The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-03-26
For the Asheville CITIZEN.
A CARD.

A CARD.
In yesterdays morning AdUdace appears
card signed by G. w. puresoy,s the
alleged object of which is to ask correc-
ton of an injustice done him in the
account given in the preceding days
lsEue of that paper relating to the collis-
| ion between him and myself.
With his version of that transaction /
will not concern myself. The puI-ic era
not interested IN, and the civil auLhori-
ties have passed upon it. But 1 would
suggest to DR.. Purefoy that more Qf
manly candor in him would have been
proper; and it would have been more
creditable to him, and more Just to mE-
self if he had stated the terms and words
IN which his offensive message was
couched, then the public might not have
been lndulgent to the pacific desire Of
the gentleman to avoid the notoriety of q
street alteration.
1t ia generally accepted as fact that
one gentleman will not .aff another a
liar, particularly vixen the offeAsive.
epistle Is applied with cool deliheration;
when done under such circumstances, the
offending party is expected to meet the
consequences then and there, whenever
he meets him he has aggrieyed. It is
not xPeeeed that ST aieisnt selfeoatro1,
or obiyionsness of personal rights shall
prevail to postpone the consideration of
the matter to a more convenient season.,
to time and place selected by the
offender,
Disposing TO his own satisfaction of the
incidents ot tie alteration, DR.. Purefoy
pr;;ceene - G;eclaiIn 81 hostility 10 the
Mission tln 'pjt2l. IN = s'lo5 4GIent
paragc:,i n IL implicitly &C aj'rs all
h0sail s..au; ! = r,',F =, ar ~ q
u p,5e ,.-i.,'-i. =. ..a.- Joy es. .id5AY-
,..i..@ =, >,i,..l. Il E. ~-t,,i -: lily name
il lie !, y:,is's G. Bay Il.w ::ua! al, as
medical attendant iFtta3 else bat the
most friendly concern for my reputation
could have influenced such disinterested
labor?
If then his hostility was not directed
against me. there IS no other head upon
which, in the movements of Dr.. Purefoy,
it could fall, except upon that of the
Hospital. The confidence to be reposed
upon that Institution, and it's consequent
successful existence, was involved in the
character and reputation Of the medical
staff associated with it.
The names of several gentlemen ofthis
place, all known as trusted practitioners,
were published as visiting physicians
and surgeons. All these names associ-
ated with previous and honorable service
and experience elsewhere. Among them
was my name as one of the resident ply
sicians of Bay View Hospital near Balti-
more.
DR.. Pdrefoy, as the result OF researches
suggested by his kindly interest in my BE-
half, finds, 20 his disappointment, that
no such person as Dr. John A. Watson
wa resident surgeon at Bay View in
1872, or az any time since that date"
Now, if DR.. Purefoy had pursued his
investigations farther, and in that spirit
that aetna ed him, hs would readily have
found that at he time l was resident
pk ysician at Bay View Hospital, one of
four graduate physicians. among whom
the wards were divided, and to whom
they were allotted by the two surgeons
an physicians and residents oftke city
Of Baltimore, who visited the institu-
ton twice week, putting the conduct of
the hospita' in the mean time in charge
Of gci.tlemen selected for lheir compe-
tency and assiduity. AS one Of these I
zgGs resident physician, IiUing in the hosps-
tai, performing aUthe duties expected and
required, uithOu compensation, e-rcept that
highly raI1lea one Of feGpcrjence obtained in
G1a institution of Soch uast professional OPP
I}GTtuRitisS
Upon this experience, the honor and
magnitude of which had never been o.
tentiously trudtd upon the public, the
ladies OF the Mission Hospital did me
the honor to select me as one of the Wis
iting physicians. very naturally associ-
ating my name with the previous service
that had given me the experience that
would justify this claim of public conf |
dence. The assault upon me is therefore
an assault upon the ladies, an assault
upon the institution and though he
says. I've repeat that we (who are We p
arr not enemies to the Mission Hospi- !
tai, there is TO other conclusion to be
reached than that it is assaulted; for
what else could provoke the uncalled for
Que: tioh Of the claim to public conf
denca Of one of the staff of visiting plv-
siciars, upon whose character and quail !
fcations the Hospital WIS dependent for
its prospsritv.
If Dr.. P1refny's hostility TO me is per |
soual Or professional, leave him to the
fruits of his mn revoked attack, and leave
it to the public TO decide to whom shall
fall the claim t. victory.
NO. a. WATsoN.
Asheville, N. c.. March 25. 1886.